Saturday, we saw a pickpocket.
What’s so special about them? We can find them in any corner of Jakarta. You can invite them if you want. Stand beside the street, have a budging thing sticking out from your pocket, look pretty, and they will come to you. Or even without bait, or even when you were on your lowest financial condition. Once I had to fight a hand reaching out for my neck through bus’s window trying to grab my what, 40 cent necklace?
Good thing here, they are rare, or at least the sense of security is very strong here. I’ve been spoilt to a stage that I might have lost most of the courage I had when I roamed Jakarta.
Such as, I didn’t blink my eyes when a person next to me holding a brochure said ‘Everyone has to kill at least four Chinese according the passage of…' pasca 1998 riot, I was in a bus full of other Indonesian ethnic group when someone climbed in and distributed the brochure, he skipped me, of course. I wonder why.
Now, I don't think I won't be nervous if I have to hit Jakarta's road again.
Anyway, here, there was a pickpocket, a stupid pickpocket.
First, he tried to grab a man’s handphone. He was unable to snatch it away, because the man wouldn’t let go. Instead, the man held him and shouted to his face.
This is my phone. What are you trying to do... Somethinggg like that. I missed that part.
Second, the place of incident is in front of the busiest mall on the weekend, and in front of Carrefour. It’s hard enough to have a leisure walk among crowded area. So, figure this, even if he managed to grab the phone, ran, he had to jump among trolleys, children (trust me it’s hard when those little people were running around you), and, imagine if the victim shouted, STOP HIM, he stole my phone.
Everybody would stop, every little people also, and the thief would be the only one running, sure enough someone could go as little as sticking his feet out to make him kiss the floor.
Not saying about physical stamina and appearance, the guy looked like a librarian nerd and caught red-handed. Nuff said.
The ridiculous thing was, Hubby, who witnessed the whole process, was waiting for a fight to break out, or, the beating. He was surprised to see the thief was escorted away just like that, after being caught by the guy, few other guy helped to keep watch, and security guard. That’s all? Me, who came out of the shop, missed the whole thing, also looked for a fight when he told me there was a pickpocket. After a while, we smacked our foreheads.
Okay, I think we were too get used to ugly Indonesia, if there was a person caught stealing, he would almost as good as dead. Beaten up by people would be his minimal risk, on worse scenario, they could be burnt or stoned. Of course they are wrong, but the ones who do the punishment are blood-thirst freaking idiots.
So, for this guy, maybe he didn’t realize he was lucky enough to be escorted peacefully. I’ve been grumbling about Lion City a few times, but in security department, I love it.
About movies.., I’ve been saying I watched this movie, that movie, this one crap, that one sucks without much explanations. So, I’ll try to pull my tongue a bit..
The Constant Gardener:
Finally, managed to rent the DVD about three weeks ago, it’s amazing because I’ve just missed it in the cinema. Starring Ralph Fiennes and Rachel Weiz (sp), it’s about a man who lost his wife in a tragic incident, he smelled something fishy about the death and started to dig everything out. The movie seemed to set mostly in Africa, where we could see people queuing for food or medication, as the wife is an activist, and some scenes were set in beautiful garden (something has to make sense with the title) and bathroom.
The plot is quite jumpy as it involves a lot of flashbacks but the pace is fine, the story has some touching facts and make us think about how many things are actually happen that fail to catch the world’s attention, set aside by news like coach jumper actor?
Le Grand Voyage :
A story about a father and a son, who are not close at all, going on a journey to Mecca. It’s all about the road, although they are said to travel through Milan, Venice, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and a dozen of other countries, we see none of them in the movie, except Mecca. But of course the movie is not about travel promotion, in fact, the setting doesn’t have any significance to be appeared in the movies, if there were.
So, along the humble journey, they met their problem, and the most, the difficulty to settle down with each other, it has Islamic topic but for most of the movie the feel is general. The message is not so deep but there are messages and there are terrible moments.
Broken Flower :
The concept is okay, and I like the cover picture, looked like some smart conceptual story. But actually, it’s disappointing. That is the problem if the story is too chronological, the creator feel the need to include every minute and every step of the journey, which, they shouldn’t, so it’s flat. Flat flat flat flat flat flat.
Brrrtzkxxxzzz, tongue is retracted.
Ice Age 2 : For good leisure time, and good chuckles, enjoy Scrat.
Corpse’s Bride : Okay lah.
Brother’s Grimm : So-so-lah.
Polar Express : Standard-lah.
Bridget Jones Diary 1 : I know, I know, it’s something very outdated already. I found one very surprising thing. I thought only Asian society has problem with married before thirty. Huh?
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What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists?
- Woody Allen
Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place.
- Johnny Carson
- Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
- Consciousness: that annoying time between naps.
- Lets get along with me.
